Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1887-10-12
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! WoWOs WOsoO SWO VO80uOS
 Yellow fever at Tampa. FloridA Queen Victoria vill visit India nexi year.
 John L. Sullivan viIl sail fos Europe October s9.
 Ex-Governos washburn. of Aasaachu-
 setts. is dead.
 Tennessee gave over ss.ooo majoe fly
 against prohibition. San Francisco jury hsibess are joining
 the Chicago boodiess in Canada. Italy has nov nine larke gun ironclads five powerful cruisers and fky torpedo boats.
 Foureeen deaths from cholera have occurred on the quarantined sseamu, in New York.
 The Nevada bank lot over six mill
 ion by the collapse of the Califoenia wheat deal
 Captain Barr, of the Thissle, is rieid
 Presbyterian and will allow no swearing aboard his boat. A journalist named Reynolds d. temnted to shoot Governor Mastin, q KansaA . few days age.
 Merida, Mexico, has been closed against the United States on account oi epidemic cholera in New Yosk.
 The Washington Critic calculate that ooe-half of the present population of the United states were born since the var. Ex-Senater Creighton the nvic,ed jury bsiber. failed to appear for sentence when his case vas seached-skipped 0 Canada
 Some Kentucky cspisalisss have o. ganized . corporation fes aging whisky by machinery. This is evidently . scheme to beat time. Denis Kearney, the sandlot aeitatoe, ot San Francisco. is on another easHsen tour. Chicago jailess protected the COO demned anarchists from the inAictioo o( his jaw.
 The Sharon-Hi case hke Banquo's ghost will not down, although sharon has been dead for month& Chasees of bribery are nov hinted against ez-judges there.
 In My last the ships Charmer aad Seminole. left New Yosk on an ocean raceto San Franciso. The fogme, has just reached its des,inzt.on, in one hundred and fo.ty-nine days. The missing whales Amythist of Nes York has been found wrecked n the Arctic regions. The revenue cutter Rush went in search of her in 1886. She had . crew of thiIty-six men, whose fate is unknovn. Charles Leamon. vho killed John A Scott ID Lake valley. Douslas county, Nev., last August because be wouldn't sing 'sTim Finnegan's Wake" f1 him, has been convicted of murder and sea- tenced to death. Division Superintendent Cfaham, of the Nosthem Pacific, has been arrested for violation ot the interstate lav in re ius ing to furnish cars foe the shipment of wheat. and discriminating in favor of elevator men.
 ACrescent City. Oregon, dispatch an- nounces the finding of the wreck of the steamer Brother Jonathan, which wss lost twenty-two years ago. The vreck lies two miles miles south of North Seal Rock. eighteen miles northwest of Cres- Ieent City. She struck On . rock not d6sp on the chart.
 Camssidse, Masa, is . strict pro hibition teGp. but the official report shows that incO-Aas-6ss-AAen the or dinance went into effect there 1ese' three hundred and six anests for drunk enness in the town. against two hundr ed and forty three in the proceeding four months under rum rule"
 Phil Armour, the millionaire meat packer of Chicago hes given $4oo. 600 for mission which is said to be . model of its kind It is established in Chi cago, and there arc 1000 on its roll-call. There is . school dispensaEosy con nected with the mission. to which ooly the poorest and the neediest are d. mitted
 With the aid of science even the des- ert of Sahira is becoming inhabitahle and colonization is encouraged. The Lower Sahara is m immense basin of artesian waters and the French are from ing French oases With skill and success, SO that the number of cultivated trac,s is increasing rapidly. After period Of thirty years forythree ouses have Ia-| 900 inhabitants, Iao,ooo trees between one and seven years old and roc. .ooo fruit trees.
 The forest area of the United States is less than 4so, 900 acres, os 6a8 8,eoo square miles, or about oue-iifth the area Of the whole country. For railroad-ties alsne the wood on soo.ooo acres (8oo square miles) is required annually. Some idea of the rapid reduction of our forest may be gathered from the fact that i" 1853 Ohio had forest equal to S per cent of the area Of the state nov it